“…Moreover, tertiary lymphoid organs also frequently appear in autoimmune diseases such as Sjo¨gren's syndrome (Hjelmervik et al, 2005), chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, rheumatoid arthritis (RA) (Young et al, 1984;Takemura et al, 2001), Graves' disease (Armengol et al, 2003;Aust et al, 2004) or multiple sclerosis (Prineas 1979;Serafini et al, 2004). In most of these diseases, elevated expression of LT or its target genes has been detected, supporting LT's role in lymphoid neogenesis (Drayton et al, 2006).…”